And how many of these 22 were any good? Great to get your hands on the ball but not much good if you turn it over and miss easy shots at goal

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You hope the first half is what we can expect all season.
We should have been way up at half time and game over.

Centre clearance are a worry
Delivery into forward 50 a bigger worry.

Oh and just have the flower shot

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Newnes & Polson are A grade list cloggers.

Setters skills need to improve but think he will be alright.

Seriously worried whether McGovern will ever be worth it. Shown very little. May need to go back or something. Play a similar role to a Jeremy Howe, but we have very little options up fwd. Prob should have given Moore another run.

Dow showed some dash. Walsh all class. Doc will be back to his best in no time.

Would of liked to see Willo, Kennedy & Philp get game time.

This.
38 inside fifties for the game against 62 odd.
56 point turnaround after half time.
Several players managed for us but Bris seemed to have the players in space after half time and got 90% of the panic balls from both sides.

Kreuzer is shot and should not play next week. De Konig did better in one quarter than MK did for the whole game. At just after half time they had 7-8 scores from centre bounces.
Cripps looks to have lost his power in an attempt to get more speed or more stamina or something. To get rag dolled by Zorko, who is a midget in one contest is outside the natural order of things.
I am guessing but I am going to say they got 10 goals in all inside the last few minutes of each quarter.

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23 frees to 15
But 12 against us came from Our defenders they only had 1 defender give away a free.

Is this discipline or just the product of being a perennial loser

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At least he got it 22 times. That is not poor. That is pretty good. OK, he missed shots at goal. At least he had them to miss. Eddie got two goals from about six possessions. That doesn't mean he had a better game.
Fisher was invisible this week.

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The hands in the back rule is a farce.

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SOS has butchered this list post rebuild. Setters, McGovern, Dow & Fisher wouldn’t get a game for any other team and these are the players we are pinning our hopes on.

Fair to say we’re going into round 1 as flat as a tack. Skill errors kill us and it looks like more of the same again this season.

Murphy's lazy undisciplined 50m give away in the 2nd qtr just infuriates me. Culture.

Dow, Martin, TDK, Walsh give hope though.

Anyone know where O’Brien was?

I have had my reservations for a while

Can’t see this core of players getting us to where we want to be

I think it’s a false dawn

Says a lot when we are still relying on players such as Ed Curnow and Plowman

If we’re any good they would have been phased out by now

@#$%&! that was uninspiring

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Left wing moralists
In self serving denial
They shit me no end

I don’t think history will judge SOS time at Carlton between 2015-19 kindly as most of what he got in is either garbage from other clubs, or outside the top 30 and a mediocre hit rate in the top 30.

Still miles off it really, and be lucky to leave the bottom 2 this year.

Fish was very quiet in the first half but much better in the 2nd half.
Main positives for me were Martin, TDK, Walsh and Dow's improved ball usage (just wish he got a bit more of the footy).
Hopefully SPS and O'Brien are deemed fit enough to play round 1 as our ball usage needs to improve.

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Sadly the guys to phase them out don’t exist on our list. In saying that it’s not so much phasing them out, it’s more we need more regular contributors to complement them. If those 2 are in your top 5-6 players, you have issues.

I’m concerned we are becoming the AFLs version of the Cleveland Browns

just got back from the game. As noted - first half pretty good - although we faded at the end of each quarter.
Some good passages of play and some goal to gaol stuff. Some risky passes into the middle - some of which came off but when it didn't...
Dow good in first half - as was Levi. Thought Newnes was ok in first part of game but then not so much. Setters got it a lot and sprayed it a lot.
Jones generally as you would expect and Newman did some good things. Love the way Eddie can out-body a much taller opponent - why is he our only forward who can do this?
Missed Harry.
In the third and 4th quarters we had times when our starting midfield was dow, martin, walsh or dow, martin fish. Just too small and the lions just ripped through - we couldn't stick a tackle. Not sure what the aim was there but the bigger bodied lions must have been laughing their heads off.
Cripps did very little, as did murph, Mc G only seemed on for about a 1/4. Jsos battled but apart for Levi and then Martin and some Betts cameos, our forward line looked very unthreatening. Kruze held his own on the middle but appeared pretty limited beyond that.
Disappointing second half - we just couldn't get a centre clearance and it is hard to see where the improvement is going to come from. SPS and Harry would have helped a fair bit...
I get it was a practice match but now fully acclimatised for lowered expectations.

Posted at 3/4 time. For anyone wondering why we stopped our intensity and got run over the top of.

Not enough to get us out of jail though